Compound implement



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FEED STARR, or crIIoAeo, ILLINOIS.

COMPOUND IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 549,164, dated November5, 1895.

Application led September 13, 1894. Serial No. 522,926. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED STARR, a citizen of the United States, residingat Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Compound Implements; and-I dohereby declare the following to be ah full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention has reference to tools or implements designedespecially for the use and convenience of cycle-riders, equestrians,tourists, and the like.

It has for its object to provide a compound instrument or tool combiningin one simple, compact, convenient structure several useful functions.

The device is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and describedand claimed in the following specification.

It consists of a spring-steel clip for holding the legs of the trouserswrapped close in atv the ankles to prevent them from being caught ortangled in the treadles, chains, or other part of the bicycle'or othervelocipede, or, in the case of an equestrian, to keep the trousers fromriding up the legs and to prevent them from being caught in thestirrup-straps, said clip being constructed and adapted to perform theadditional functions of a screw' driver and a duplex wrench, all as morefully hereinafter set forth and explained.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figurel is a perspective viewv of the foot and a portion of the leg of a cyclerider,l illustrating the manner of holding in the trousers and applyingthe clip. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the combined clip,screwdriver, and wrench.

Referring to Fig. 2, a, indicates an elastic clip which is preferablyclamped or struck up out of a single piece of spring-steel having theproper temper to secure the desired spring action. The ends of the twoarms of the clip are flared or turned outwardly, as at l?, to e11- ablethe device to be easily pushed over the edges of the folded trousers. .Iust back of the ends b the armsof the clip are bent inwardly toward eachother, so as to provide grippingpoints c, and so as to leave below saidpoints in the body of the clip an enlarged space h for the accommodationof the seams or facing of the lower edge of the trousers. One arm of theclip (it may be either arm) is provided with a disk-like enlargement eand a rightangular projecting piece or point g. In the periphery of thedisk-like enlargement e are formed a plurality of radial notches f ofdifferent sizes, said notches constituting rigidj aw wrenches forscrewing up nuts of various sizes. The projection g stands out radiallyfrom the disk-like enlargement, preferably at a right angle to the armsof the clip. Its end is beveled or inclined, as shown, and itconstitutes a convenient screwdriver, of which the arms of the clipcompose the handle when in use.

The manner of applying the device for the purpose of holding thetrousers is illustrated in Fig. l, where the arm of the clip having theenlargementv is placed on the inside, so as to be concealed from view,though, of course, it may be placed on the o utside. In practice thecompression of the opposite arm of the clip will press the cloth of thetrousers into the radial notches in the disk-like enlargement, therebypreventing the disarrangement of the folds in the trousers, as well asholding the clip in place and preventing it from working around, so asto release the trousers.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, isV

As a new article of manufacture, a tool or implement designed especiallyfor the use of vcycle riders, the same consisting of the elastic FREDSTARR.

Witnesses:

J. A. GoLDsBoEoUeH, D. W. Woon.

